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Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames (original 2001; edition 2002)

by Thich Nhat Hanh (Author)

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Draws on the principles of Buddhism to discuss the potentially devastating impact of anger on human health and offers a variety of stories, techniques, and tools designed to help transform anger into peace and bring harmony and healing into one's life.
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Title:Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
Authors:Thich Nhat Hanh (Author)
Info:Riverhead Books (2002), 240 pages
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Rating:*****
Tags:Psychology

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Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames by Thich Nhat Hanh (2001)

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Repetitive and simple. But, very much an instrument of peace for those who suffer with their anger.

Through breathing and mindfulness, we can transform the energy of anger into a revelation of our passion and an expression of our compassion:

"Breathing in, I know that anger has manifested in me. Hello, my little anger. I will take good care of you."

"Darling, I am angry and therefore suffer. I am doing my best. Please help me." ( )
  nrfaris | Dec 23, 2021 |
It was under the bodhi tree in India twenty-five centuries ago that Buddha achieved the insight that three states of mind were the source of all our unhappiness: wrong knowing, obsessive desire, and anger. All are difficult, but in one instant of anger—one of the most powerful emotions—lives can be ruined, and health and spiritual development can be destroyed.
  cpcs-acts | Sep 22, 2020 |
This book saved several of my friendships during my 20s. It was also the first of Thich Nhat Hanh's works I'd read. He has since become a great hero of mine.

It's also the book that introduced me to the concept of Slow Eating, which I've used to great success in losing weight and eating healthier.

... And everything I just wrote seems like such a shallow commentary on what is a profoundly wise and affecting book. It will change your life, if you let it. ( )
1 vote johnthelibrarian | Aug 11, 2020 |
Wonderful book for helping one with how to not control anger but turn it from 'garbage' to 'compost'. Has intervention ideas. ( )
1 vote teratriceratops | Jun 7, 2019 |
This book I was surprised to see appears to have been endorsed by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. himself. I'd not realized that this author or practioner was around that long. Much of what is in the book goes back to the mindfullness or insight meditation that I studied after university, which I did not find helpful with my panic reactions to trauma, nor with trauma itself, but in adding his chapter about caring for and inviting the inner wounded child along when you go to see a beautiful mountain, for example, now I see that there are other ways to use mindfulness and meditation that can be helpful in dealing with trauma.
I particularly like the idea of spouses treating each other with the respect normally reserved for a guest in one's house, which he says is Vietnamese tradition. Very nice. ( )
  FourFreedoms | May 17, 2019 |
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To be happy, to me, is to suffer less.
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If your house is on fire, the most urgent thing to do is to go back and try to put out the fire, not to run after the person you believe to be the arsonist. If you run after the person you suspect has burned your house, your house will burn down while you are chasing him or her. That is not wise. You must go back and put out the fire. So when you are angry, if you continue to interact with or argue with the other person, if you try to punish her, you are acting exactly like someone who runs after the arsonist while everything goes up in flames.
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Draws on the principles of Buddhism to discuss the potentially devastating impact of anger on human health and offers a variety of stories, techniques, and tools designed to help transform anger into peace and bring harmony and healing into one's life.

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